2016 Roosevelt Dimes with a Gold Tone to Them?

[FreeBirdTim]

I bought 10 rolls of dimes at my bank yesterday and they're all 2016's. They were machine wrapped and in BU condition. They look like they've never been circulated at all. What makes them strange is that a quite few seem to have a gold tone to them. Is this some sort of minting error? Any clue on this one?

Hard to take good pics, but I think you can see that three of them have a gold tone and one is the normal silver color.

 

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[A2coins]

I found 5 gold plated quarters once I cant help you with these but cool find!!!!

 

[FreeBirdTim]

I should have mentioned that they weigh exactly the same as a regular dime, so I don't think there's a gold layer added to them. Very weird!

 

[Anduril]

A few thoughts jump immediately to mind:

Option-1: President Trump visited the mint and these dimes ran through his fingers?
Or maybe that gold guy on the recent KFC chicken commercials?

Option-2: It's just the tarnish of America's reputation.

Option-3: The dimes are cheap Chinese knock-offs. (Or made in Russia.)

Option-4: It's the Fed's way of making us feel wealthy?! <-- my personal favorite.

Option-5: It's today's inflation-adjusted, (and skill-set adjusted) corporate version of a CEO's "golden parachute".

 

[rich f]

cameo dimes maybe

 

[cudamark]

Probably just some tarnish or patina starting. Dip one in some jewelry cleaner to see if comes right off.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

That was a good idea, Mark. I cleaned a silver clad dime and the gold dime with brass polish. Shined them both up, but the gold tone still remains! Very strange...

 

[Eleven Cents]

Clad coins are nickel-copper over copper. The composition of the nickel-copper coating could be slightly off, or it could be thinner than usual.

 

[Davers]

All 2016's huh?
Maybe the mint is playing around with a new alloy (a cheaper one) . Maybe the 2017 Quarters will look that way.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Clad coins are nickel-copper over copper. The composition of the nickel-copper coating could be slightly off, or it could be thinner than usual

The problem with that is the one I cleaned has a scrape on the chin. Can't really see it in my lousy pics, but his chin is bright silver color under the gold tone. So it's not the nickel-copper layer that's too thin.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

All 2016's huh?
Maybe the mint is playing around with a new alloy (a cheaper one) . Maybe the 2017 Quarters will look that way

This could be the answer. Maybe the mint was playing with the clad layer and this was the end result. Can't wait for the 2017's to come out and see if any of them have the same gold tone.

 

[ecmo]

I believe it's the acid in the paper in the rolls. I bought a couple rolls of the uncirculated buffalo nickels (new style) in 2005 and a uncirculated roll of Washington dollars (not gold ones) in 2007. They have been in my gun safe all this time and no to low humidity.

In the last year or so when I happened to look at them I noticed the coins on the ends of the rolls were turning gold with the centers still silver/nickel color. One buffalo is actually sort of a iridescent greenish color, lol. Imho this is due to paper acids bleeding.

Well I just shared it to tappatalk but it's not here, probably some other forum, Oh my.

I took a pic while ago but am affraid if I go to my photos I'll lose this unfinished post. Lol

Don

 

[FreeBirdTim]

If it was the acid in the paper rolls, then they'd all have a gold tone to them. That's not the case with these dimes. I'd say that about 5 coins per roll have a gold tone to them.

Let me also say that I've opened at least 50 rolls of 2016 dimes and none of the other 40 rolls had any gold toned coins in them. But since I don't see any on eBay, I guess they're not worth a premium.